According to the position laid down in the act of 1718, Ch. 4, this statute must have been considered
in force in the province.  An act had been passed in 1704, to prevent the growth of popery
within the province, and in 1707, there was an act suspending, during the queen's pleasure, the prosecution
of the priests of the Romish communion, incurring the penalties of the said act, (of 1704,) in
the manner therein mentioned.  The act of 1718, recited the two former acts, and that, " whereas
disputes had arisen among the Romanists, concerning the latter, or the suspension act," and it enacted,
that for the removal of those disputes, and considering that by one act of parliament, made in the
11th and 12th year of the late king William 3, Ch. 4, there was a good provision made to prevent the
growth of popery, as well in this province, as throughout all others his majesty's dominions, and
that an act of this province could in no ways alter the effect of that statute.  The said act of 1704 should
be repealed.

CHAP. 6.  An act to enable his majesty's natural born subjects, to inherit the estate
    of their ancestors, either lineal or collateral, notwithstanding their father or
    mother were aliens.

    See the note on 25 Edw. 2, St. 2, and 7 Anne, Ch. 5.  This statute provided that the king's natural
born subjects should inherit as heirs, although their parents were born out of the king's dominions,
&c.  Explained by 25 George 2, Ch. 39.

    See the note on 28 Hen. 8, Ch. 15.
 

    This statute may be considered as applicable to the inhabitants of the province, being subjects of
England, and entitled to the same liberties as the subjects therein.  See the note on 9 Hen. 3, Ch. 1,
and 1 George 1, Ch. 4.
 

    The inhabitants of the province might have incurred the penalties of the 2d section of this statute,
for holding correspondence with the pretender.  There are some instances of persons being presented
and fined for drinking his health, and speaking in his favor.